Some holes in the Extensions documentation put some holes in my motivation over the last couple of days, but I’ve still been working hard. As such, I have more progress to report.
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Beta creeping closer
11th January, 2010Chrome Extensions API updated
7th January, 2010It’s been quite some time since I’ve had time to review the whole Chrome API again. As it turns out, it’s been greatly updated, to the point where we can abandon the whole content-script idea. The main features I’m interested in are insertCSS and executeScript. These let extensions inject CSS and Javascript into a page from the background page. So, now, there’s a background script that waits for pages to start loading, which is when it’ll download rules to hide ads. It also caches rules in the extension’s database with an option to download all rules, which should make the experience a lot smoother. I’m putting together a beta ASAP.
AdSweep Online
2nd January, 2010Last time, when I first took over AdSweep’s maintenance, I tried an experiment to have the database of rules on my server and to have the extension simply insert the stylesheet generated by my server into the page. This worked fine in my testing, but apparently it didn’t work too well for most people. So I scrapped it and began thinking about a new way of doing it.